Yamato, Empire of the Rising Sun

“	On the very edge of the eastern world, a new civilization was born beneath the rising sun. Follow the Yamato as they eclipse the neighbouring clans to dominate Japan, turning the islands of rice farmers and fishermen into an empire of warriors and poets.	”
—In-game campaign description

Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun in-game campaign cover in the Definite Edition

Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun is a campaign in Age of Empires that focuses on the rise and development of the Yamato Kingdom. The set consists of 8 different scenarios each with unique challenges and goals the player must face.

Scenarios

With the launch of the Definitive Edition, the campaign now consists of the following scenarios:

1. The Assassins (Reworked version of the original)
2. Island Hopping
3. Capture(Reworked version of the original)
4. Mountain Temple (Reworked version of the original)
5. The Canyon of Death
6. Coup (Oppression in the original)
7. Jinshin War (A Friend in Need in the original)
8. Fujiwara Revolts (Kyushu Revolts in the original)

Trivia

• The original release of Age of Empires featured a different version of the seventh and eighth scenarios of the campaign. These were changed in response to concerns in South Korea with the theme of a Japanese invasion of the Korean peninsula. In subsequent releases of Age of Empires, the scenarios themselves were unchanged, but all scenario instructions, history text, and bitmaps were edited. So, instead of the invasion of the Silla Kingdom by the Yamato Japan and their Korean Baekje allies, the final release depicts a revolt of the most southwesterly main island of Japan, Kyushu (probably the Hayato Rebellion).
• In the Definitive Edition release, the historical background of those last three scenarios were changed for concrete historical events of the Yamato period late history, ending the campaign with the Fujiwara Rebellion of the Nara Period.